Example sentences of "he [vb past] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 2 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 3 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |
| 4 | He noticed that frozen fish and caribou meat tasted as good frozen as fresh . |
| 5 | He added that several people had told him their windows had been covered in oil again — a problem most islanders faced ten weeks ago when the Braer hit rocks near Sumburgh . |
| 6 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 7 | He believed that some people are already moving to higher and higher planes of the mind , and there is here an endless potential . |
| 8 | He claimed that 85,000 people had used the range over a two-year period and that outdoor sport was acceptable on green belt land . |
| 9 | By this he meant that many people want to cure a particular problem , or to understand themselves more fully , yet do not want to change their way of moving and , especially , their mental attitudes to life . |
| 10 | When Mukařovský ( 1936 and 1970 : 70ff. ) wrote of art , literature , or poetry as semiological facts , he meant that artistic works constitute particular kinds of signs which can only be understood within the framework of a general sign-theory . |
| 11 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 12 | He said that 120 people had " disappeared " under the present government and that 3,700 had disappeared since 1980 . |
| 13 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 14 | He said that many people who could do so would be more likely to shop on the continent . |
| 15 | He said that local people particularly welcomed the fact that the store would bring 200 job opportunities to the area . |
| 16 | There was a man being interviewed on tele the other night he said that these people are trying to destroy the English language by their |
| 17 | He suggested that new species arise , not in the main centre of its ancestors , but in peripheral , somewhat isolated populations . |